Introducing the International Circuit Designers Association (ICDA)

Ten years ago, long before surface mounting became an issue for mass production, the role of the printed circuit designer was mainly to design a conductive interconnect with through‐hole mounted connecting pins. At this time, manufacturing technology was very little influenced by the circuit designer, since all components were inserted into through‐holes and only a few basic rules were required for the soldering of the through‐hole mounted components.